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Legal Quays and Custom House, south of Lower Thames Street, City of London, 1796
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Reference number
SM D3/11/2
Purpose
Legal Quays and Custom House, south of Lower Thames Street, City of London, 1796
Aspect
[1] Rough elevation and part-elevation of river front, 1500 ft long and supported by 43 arches
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
dimensions given and calculations and (verso, cut) [Port?] of Lond. / Fig2 Sketches / [e] lyn of Warehouses &ca / [Leg]al Quays / Dance / (cut) 13
Signed and dated
- 1796
Medium and dimensions
Brown pen and pencil, hatching on coarse laid paper (270 x 520)
Hand
Dance
Verso
Rough elevation and detail Pencil
Notes
The centrally placed custom house is crowned by a gigantic, pyramidal pedestal with an equestrian statue, above two floors with a giant order over a rusticated base with three arches that suggests a triumphal arch, and with four steps down to the river. The 17 bay warehouses on either side are articulated by pedimental double bays (a) that break forward in an a-b-a-c-a-b-a rhythm.
REPRODUCED. Stroud fig.50a; D. Stillman, English Neo-classical architecture, 1988 vol.II, fig.256 (part).
REPRODUCED. Stroud fig.50a; D. Stillman, English Neo-classical architecture, 1988 vol.II, fig.256 (part).
Level
Drawing
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